Edgefield Advertiser

The Inspectors of steamboats for Mobile are playing the deuce among the boilers.—Nearly all of the boats which run to the interior are under condemnation; and all those to New Orleans are in the same predicament. It is certainly inconvenient for the present, but who can regret it, when such a momentous end as the preservation of life is to be attained by it! As soon as they shall commence running, steamboat travelling will be as safe as sleeping in one's bed. The only persons likely to suffer by this provoking security are the newsmongers. There will now be no heart-rending descriptions of mangled limbs flying hither and thither through the air—no more shrieks of the dying and the seared; no more scenes of courtship enacted at sea with only a thin plank between the heaven of matrimony and the deep, deep waves—no more—in short, Othello's occupation's gone:"

and we shall have to "get up" some new method of doing horrible and make our readers hair stand on end.—Mobile Examiner.